IntelliJ share code formatting settings in git repository

Question

I do not want to commit the IntelliJ project file/folder to my git repository but I do want to share the formatting settings.

Ideally in a way such that IDEA automatically picks them up when opening the project after freshly checking it out so that me and my fellow colleagues can have a good time coding without worrying about the code style.

We're talking about a Scala project.

Answer 1

Take a look at

http://editorconfig.org/

It's language agnostic and supported not only by Idea, but by Eclipse and e t.c.